Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State?

Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's digital society. The book asks: Is the state "back" in internet regulation? If so, what forms are state involvement taking, and with what consequences for the future?

The volume includes case studies from across the world and addresses a wide range of issues regarding internet infrastructure, data and content. The book pushes the debate beyond a simplistic dichotomy between liberalism and authoritarianism in order to consider also greater state involvement based on values of democracy and human rights. Seeing internet governance as a complex arena where power is contested among diverse non-state and state actors across local, national, regional and global scales, the book offers a critical and nuanced discussion of how the internet is governed – and how it should be governed.

Power and Authority in Internet Governance provides an important resource for researchers across international relations, global governance, science and technology studies and law as well as policymakers and analysts concerned with regulating the global internet.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license.

Blayne Haggart is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada, and Research Fellow, Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Natasha Tusikov is Assistant Professor of Criminology at York University in Toronto and a visiting fellow with the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University.

Jan Aart Scholte is Chair of Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at Leiden University and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen.